Presterity

To our readers:

After two years of following our mission — documenting the corruption and falsehoods of the Trump administration daily — we stopped updating this website at the end of 2018.

We hope you enjoyed Presterity as much as we enjoyed creating it. We loved hearing feedback from you, and your voices were comforting during a precarious time in our country’s history. We made the decision to stop active work on the site for several reasons:

First, we were encouraged that key democraticinstitutions (the press, the judicial branch) did not break or completely bend to the will of this administration during its first two years.

Second, in January 2019, the House of Representatives made it clear that they would try to hold the Trump administration accountable for its actions, restoring checks and balances to our democracy.

While we very much enjoyed building and contributing to Presterity, we ultimately decided we could best help “The Resistance” in other ways.

We want to thank everyone who contributed, developed, designed, tweeted at us, or even just visited the site. We genuinely hope you enjoyed it and found it useful. Thank you.

This is a collectively authored reference site about the Donald Trump administration.

This work is produced by a partnership of concerned citizens, journalists, politicians, and watchdog organizations. Our mission is to document the Trump phenomenon, and ideally, limit the damage that can be caused by this unprecedented assault on facts, civil liberties, civil rights, and norms of public and political behavior. Read more about this project.

The Trump administration is working on a plan with Mexico’s incoming government to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courtswashingtonpost.com(See also Immigration, Mexico, Immigrants)

It's the second major resignation over the president's decision in as many days.

2018.12.21

The Trump administration released a draft environmental impact statement laying out its plan to open up 1.6 million acres of the refuge to oil and gas drilling, known as the coastal plain, sitting on the North Slope of Alaska along the Beaufort Sea.earther.gizmodo.com(See also Environment, Department of the Interior)

These are the latest additions to our collection of historical events; they are not necessarily the most recent events.